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Updated Test Guidance - issued December 2014 Rev

Updated Test Guidance -updated July 2015 [1st issued December 2014], has been revised to address the review of the ART. see SpLD Assessment page.

19/07/2015

The SpLD Assessment Standards Committee has released updated Test Guidance. SpLD Testing and Assessment Guidance - December 2014 is downloadable from this website. The SASC committee have updated its review of the Adult Reading
Test (ART) and this latest update guidance has been revised to include this note.

The ART is currently being restandardised and a new version is
planned for 2016. Given this information, it has been decided to remove
the advice regarding its use ONLY as a qualitative tool. The advice regarding
the 2 minutes writing task has also been removed. The ART remains on the list
of approved tests for oral prose reading.

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